Simon Foster

Software Developer based in the North of England. More than just another developer.

North of England Joined on Feb 8, 2019 https://www.funkysi1701.com/

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Jul 25

A brief history of Source Control

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What jobs exist in IT?

IT Technician Systems Administrator Database Administrator IT...

May 7

Running SQL Server on a Linux Container using Docker for Windows

I probably wouldn't put any production data in a disposable c...

Apr 13

How has your specialty changed throughout your career?

Started off working as IT support for a small company, progre...

Apr 7

Back to BASIC

They don't make instructions manuals like that anymore!

Dec 28 '21

Why all developers should learn how to perform basic network troubleshooting

As a developer that started his career as a sysadmin I agree ...

Jun 6 '21

Testing for expiring SSL Certificates

I don't believe I am affected but I will be checking to mak...

Mar 4 '20

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Jul 6

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

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Jun 20

Diagrams with Mermaid

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Jun 14

Scottish Summit 2022

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Apr 27

Scratch

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Mar 19

Temporal Trek Podcast

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Mar 17

AWS Cloud Practitioner

#aws

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Feb 24

Updating SQL Server with Docker

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Feb 20

dotnet is 20 years old

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Jan 25

Why do I have a website?

#website #development

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Jan 10

Using GitHub Actions

#github #devopspipeline

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Jan 1

2022 Goals

#goals

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Dec 28 '21

Back to BASIC

#basic #history #programming

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Dec 5 '21

Lone Developer to Senior Developer, my 2021 story

#festivetechcalendar2021 #career #lifestory

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Aug 31 '21

More than halfway through 2021

#goals

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May 11 '21

My road to Certification

#azure #certification

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May 10 '21

DotNet on a Raspberry Pi

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Mar 7 '21

Charting my Energy usage with the Octopus Energy API

#api #octopusenergy

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Feb 14 '21

Azure DevOps Release Pipelines Pre and Post Approval

#azuredevops

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Dec 28 '20

Goals for 2021

#goals

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Dec 22 '20

Building a Twitter Clone

#twitter #design #architecture

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Dec 12 '20

#005: Twitter Cards

#twitter

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Dec 6 '20

Weekly Update #004

#sql

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Nov 28 '20

Weekly Update #003

#opensource #php

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Nov 21 '20

Weekly Update #002

#docker #azure

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Nov 14 '20

Weekly Update #001

#dotnet

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Sep 26 '20

Security Headers

#security #dotnet

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Sep 25 '20

Back to Blogging

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Mar 3 '20

Testing for expiring SSL Certificates

#security #ssl #testing

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Jan 25 '20

A Comparison of All Good Things... and Star Trek Picard

#startrek #picard

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Jan 4 '20

How do you keep track of your passwords?

#security #passwords

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Dec 29 '19

A look back at the 2010s

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Dec 2 '19

Azure Advent Calendar: Azure Devops Pipelines

#azure #azuredevops #pipelines #azureadventcalendar

3 min read

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May 14 '19

Infrastructure as Code – Creating Azure Resources with Terraform

#softwaredevelopment #azure #deployment #devops

3 min read

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Apr 7 '19

Gated Release

#softwaredevelopment #api #applicationinsights #azure

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Mar 27 '19

Documenting your API

#softwaredevelopment #api #development #pwnedpass

2 min read

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Nov 14 '19

Azure Key Vault

#softwaredevelopment #c #development #security

3 min read

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Mar 21 '19

Technology I want to learn more about

#softwaredevelopment #azure #csharp #goals

3 min read

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Mar 1 '19

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour – London

#softwaredevelopment #azure #conference #developers

2 min read

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Feb 18 '19

Yaml Builds on Azure DevOps

#softwaredevelopment #azure #build #ci

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Jan 23 '19

Pwned Pass Update

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Jan 1 '19

Lets see what 2019 can do!

#goals

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Apr 10

Looking back at 2018

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Apr 11

Running SQL Server on a Linux Container using Docker for Windows

3 min read

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Nov 12 '19

Picard is back!

#startrek #patrickstewart #picard

4 min read

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Nov 14 '19

2018 The Story So far

#softwaredevelopment #goals #career #development

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Oct 29 '19

Casting and Converting between types

#softwaredevelopment #c #cast #convert

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Apr 13

Let’s Encrypt is awesome

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Nov 14 '19

DNS for Developers

#softwaredevelopment #developers #devops #dns

3 min read

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Nov 14 '19

Code Reviews

#softwaredevelopment #development #git #programming

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Nov 14 '19

Android Development Options

#softwaredevelopment #android #cordova #crossplatform

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Nov 14 '19

Tips for Developing Yourself

#softwaredevelopment #blog #development #programming

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Nov 14 '19

Heroes

#uncategorized #hero #stephenhawking

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Nov 14 '19

New version of Pwned Pass

#softwaredevelopment #android #app #development

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Nov 28 '19

Refactoring if statements

#softwaredevelopment #class #design #development

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Dec 31 '19

Chrome distrusts SSL Certificates

#softwaredevelopment #certificates #development #devops

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Dec 31 '19

Content Security Policies

#softwaredevelopment #csp #development #reporturi

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Jan 1 '20

Pluralsight

#softwaredevelopment #c #development #learning

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Jan 19 '20

Flexible Architecture with Interfaces

#softwaredevelopment #architecture #azure #development

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Jan 20 '20

Moving files into blob storage

#softwaredevelopment #azure #development #devops

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